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B7965: A boy Called Szmulek; A Man Named Sam by Rik Arron 9781914933639
RRP: £9.98£7.11A true story of courage, love and friendship set against the darkest days of the Second World War. When author, Rik Arron, stumbled unknowingly into the life of ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor, Sam Gontarz, he didn't realise that they would go on a... -
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99£3.42"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on... -
Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
RRP: £10.99£7.32From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to... -
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going' Harvard ReviewIn 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose founded a... -
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen
RRP: £16.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588692Author Kevin PoulsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle) by Mike Curtis
RRP: £18.99£14.52Even by SAS standards Mike Curtis has had a remarkable career. A former coal miner and likely Welsh international, he served with 2 Para in the Falklands before going on to join the SAS.In C.Q.B. he describes his gruelling experience in the Falklands... -
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI
RRP: £14.99£9.53She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' ... -
Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera by Carolyn Burke 9780747581192
RRP: £16.99£12.28_______________________ THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER LEE MILLER _______________________ 'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this astounding book' - Daily Telegraph 'Does its... -
Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter by Stephen Anderton 9781845950965
RRP: £16.99£12.28Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that,... -
Me and My Brothers by Charlie Kray
RRP: £14.99£10.95An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800013
RRP: £20.00£12.05Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - The Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: £15.99£14.26In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,... -
Reels and Deals - Angling for Business by John Sellens 9781398433540
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433540Author John SellensFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
RRP: £22.00£14.91There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King by Patrick Olivelle 9780300270006
RRP: £22.00£18.56An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history "Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment."-Maxwell Carter, Wall... -
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
RRP: £9.99£6.70Ron Kovic went to Vietnam dreaming of being an American hero. What he found there changed him profoundly, even before the severe battlefield injury that left him paralysed from the waist down. He returned to an America indifferent to the realities of war... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey 9781509890736
RRP: £16.99£12.28Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.'... -
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer 9781784704216
RRP: £12.99£9.09From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019****FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL... -
Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone by Michael Bradley 9781785581809
RRP: £16.99£15.38Michael Bradley joined his school friend's group in Derry, Northern Ireland in the summer of 1974. They had two guitars and no singer. Four years later the Undertones recorded 'Teenage Kicks', John Peel's favourite record, and became one of the most... -
First Blood by Amelie Nothomb
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his childhood with a distant mother, and the moments which have led to him finding himself staring death in the face. Patrick... -
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling 9781529375022
RRP: £20.00£13.35This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide... -
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £10.99£7.77Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired... -
Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey through Life and Death by Paul Robertson
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 2008 Paul Robertson, the renowned violinist and leader of the Medici Quartet, suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying for a lengthy period on the operating table, he remained in a coma for many weeks. During this time, he experienced visions which... -
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terrence McKenna by Dennis McKenna
RRP: £17.99£12.70Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author's experiences with and reflections on psychedelics,... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £16.99£11.95* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent, gripping.' The TimesFrom 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: £25.00£18.62In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: £13.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist by Nicholas Foulkes
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable... -
Pretty Boy by Roy Shaw
RRP: £9.99£6.85Roy Shaw is the ultimate hardman. He has cult status and commands a respect that few, even in the violent world he moves in, can equal. To him, violence is simply an accepted part of his profession. He doesn't exaggerate it, he can't excuse it and he... -
The Magazine Girls 1960s - 1980s The Magazine Girls 9781803136202
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Magazine Girls captures a flash-bulb moment in counter-culture in a time of raw excitement, great creativity, opportunity and sheer magical zeitgeist. This unique multi-narrative memoir presents a rare perspective on publishing just as the media... -
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves by William Graves
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: £9.99£7.11Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memories of... -
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
RRP: £20.99£14.19Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the... -
The Blues are Back in Town: A Year and a Lifetime Supporting Cardiff City by Nick Fisk
RRP: £8.99£6.45For around twenty years, Nick Fisk believed that one day he would find a letter on his doormat from Cardiff City FC requesting his services on the football pitch. When he realised it was unlikely he was ever going to be offered the role of groundsman, he... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy
RRP: £27.99£20.01A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars. Archie Leach was a poorly educated, working-class boy from a troubled family living in the backstreets of Bristol. Cary Grant... -
Life's Work: A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction by David Milch 9781035005642
RRP: £10.99£7.51'Illuminating . . . there is never a dull moment' - The Times'Marvellous . . . full of riches' - New StatesmanDavid Milch is the critically acclaimed writer of the iconic TV series Deadwood and NYPD Blue. As he descends into a dementia from which there's... -
Then It Fell Apart by Moby 9780571339419
RRP: £10.99£7.32*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9780486821498
RRP: £8.49£6.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486821498Author T. E. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...